"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
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"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore."
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"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."
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"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."
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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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"We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see."
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"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
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"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."
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"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
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"The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars."
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"I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path."
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"Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life."
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"Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings."
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"What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."
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"How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality."
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"True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest."
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"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation."
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"A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly"
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